And welcome back, Helen! I'm also glad to see your old avatar with the spooky trees as the hair... always one of my favorites. LadyK told me you were having trouble signing in, so I'm glad to see you here. As I told you in the MM response email, I did find your old account and if you would like to use it, just PM me the password you would like to use and I can reset it. After that you can change it to whatever you want.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.

Yes, I am kind of gearing up for Halloween, not decorating like I used to as we really don't get any trick or treaters here in this house. I decorate a little on the inside but will go to my sons for the actual Halloween night extravaganza. I am planning a few trips to a couple of haunted houses and hayrides so I still get to do that anyway.

I sure do miss all the decorating and scaring the little kids but it is what it is and we had a great run.

I miss the little treat or treaters too, since we live in the country.

I did decorate my front yard with pumpkins and scarecrows, and hung the cutest little ghosts in my trees. I'll be heading for the apple orchard, with my grandsons, for picking apples, then apple pie making. Everyone peels them, and I bake them. Do I have them trained right or what? Then the hayride through the pumpkin patch for selecting pumpkins, and THEN the Haunted Forest, where you're taken into the woods and dropped off, to find your way through the maze of scary ghosties and such, creeping around, trying to scare you. Grandkids love it, so does Grandma!